In the Weybridge Village area of our town, we have two buildings, owned by the town, and listed on the National Registry of Historic Places that have been underutilized or vacant for most of the last two decades. The restoration of the Town Hall and Library as well as the development of gathering space for community members were the top concerns of town members in recent surveys, so the town dedicated some of the federal ARPA funds to assessments of these buildings, and feasibility studies of how they might be improved for use in the future.
Results of these studies were brought to the town during a community meeting in November of 2024.
A community discussion was planned for June (2025), but a heat wave made it unwise for us to meet in our un-air-conditioned space, so that meeting was postponed to September 2025. In the meantime, we offer a recorded version of a presentation below.
Video Presentation
Vermont Integrated Architecture (VIA), recorded on July 15, 2025
As a part of their work for our town, VIA created a 3D scan of each building.
In the video presentation above, VIA offers four possible Site Plan Concepts for the town buildings.
After the above concepts were presented at a town gathering on September 22, 2025, community members broke into small discussion groups. Notes from those discussions can be found here.
Vermont Integrated Architecture incorporated these notes into two final concept proposals for the town in February of 2026; one with the two buildings joined together on the same site, and one with the library on its original site, and the Town Hall building moved to the site of the current town office.
You can view the two concepts here.
Here, you can view a draft budget that compares these two concepts, as well as what might be required if the town chose to do nothing with these historic buildings and instead replace the current town office building with a new building on that same site.